"The doctor stopped under a street light to read the headlines. The paper was a late extra printed on one side only; it gave to official announcement from Petersburg that a Soviet of People's Commissars had been formed and that Soviet power and the dictatorship of the proletariat were established in Russia. There followed the first decrees of the new government and various brief news dispatches recieved by telegraph and telephone.
     The blizzard lashed at the doctor's eyes and covered the printed page with gray, rustling pellets of snow. The historic greatness of the moment moved his so deeply that it took him some time to collect himself."